diff --git a/test/test_blob.rb b/test/test_blob.rb
index a6aa0ecf..fe3f38ee 100644
--- a/test/test_blob.rb
+++ b/test/test_blob.rb
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ require 'mime/types'
 class TestBlob < Test::Unit::TestCase
   include Linguist
 
-  Lexer = Pygments::Lexer
-
   def setup
     # git blobs are normally loaded as ASCII-8BIT since they may contain data
     # with arbitrary encoding not known ahead of time
@@ -468,10 +466,6 @@ class TestBlob < Test::Unit::TestCase
     end
   end
 
-  def test_lexer
-    assert_equal Lexer['Ruby'], blob("Ruby/foo.rb").lexer
-  end
-
   def test_minified_files_not_safe_to_highlight
     assert !blob("JavaScript/jquery-1.6.1.min.js").safe_to_colorize?
   end